The Box Office Mojo issues thread. Brad Brevet is the new editor, the Simanton reign is over.

[grey ghost]

Anyone else ready to petition the white house?

 

Those usually work, right?

[grey ghost]

Please tell me ShawnMR has secretly been working on a replacement website for BOM.

 

Bail us out again, Shawn!

[Dark Jedi Master 007]

Oh, ok. Well, considering IMDB's track records in the past on these type of things, I wouldn't be surprised if the site shut down, but we should at least wait before assuming anything.


If it does shut down, I'll be a little annoyed, but not outraged. I stopped frequenting BOM after the forums went down and my interest in BO has only declined. With that said, it was one of the top box office websites in the world, and when it had its own forums, it was one of the best communities on the internet, so it would suck if it went down.

The key thing, however, is that IMDB integrate the data into its site. That data, as others have pointed out, is valuable and should be saved. If that happens, this would be something annoying, but not awful (after all, the nature of the internet is such that a lot of sites will go under). If the data isn't saved, though, then IMDB can go fuck itself.





 

[Alpha]

#BOMsNotDeadItsSurelyAlive

 

OH YEAH, BUY AN IMDB PRO

 

IT SORT OF WORKS I THINK

Edited October 10, 2014 by Alpha

[DAR]

I don't like what happened to the forums but BOM was still very useful

[Master Scottb]

Edited October 10, 2014 by scottb

[Fullbuster]

You'll be fine guys, I loved BOM too but there is a life after everything, another website will try to create its own huge database, maybe a member from these forums disgusted by all of that...

[TServo2049]

Why does anyone automatically assume it will be made pay? I mean, it could certainly happen, but why is it that people automatically jumped to that conclusion without us ever getting any confirmation that the site was even being shut down?

Edited October 10, 2014 by TServo2049

[DAR]

Of course we can always just click a link towards the top of this webpage

[Warmaster506]

 What a  bunch of fucking bullshit.

[CaptainJackSparrow]

http://www.thewrap.com/box-office-mojo-absorbed-into-imdb-com/

Read the comments, Fishnets is commenting on this!!

[forg]

Shame. Boxoffice.com, while nice, had nowhere near as good writers as Ray Subers, as well as having a clearer calendar to show what's limited and what's not. Now what do we do?

 

Don't agree with Subers, he's no  Brandon at all.He's fine but Shawn's analysis here on  this site is better IMO.

But for pure number BOM  beat BO.com handdown

[RobinHood26]

This sucks..... but good thing I have IMDBPro

[Empire]

This sucks..... but good thing I have IMDBPro

[forg]

I hope BOM isn't dead. Here in the Philippines, we use BOM to track local Box Office because there are no other sites/companies who do that at all

[Frozen]

I can't stand the forums at imdb. There is so much racism and homophobia. There is absolutely no one who moderates it and reporting anything is useless. 

[Mattrek]

Why does anyone automatically assume it will be made pay? I mean, it could certainly happen, but why is it that people automatically jumped to that conclusion without us ever getting any confirmation that the site was even being shut down?

GREED and how that godawful imdb site is run. I can pretty much guarantee if IMDB saved the data it would be available for only paying subscribers.

[grim22]

I can't stand the forums at imdb. There is so much racism and homophobia. There is absolutely no one who moderates it and reporting anything is useless. 

 

[Mattrek]

This is total bullshit, IMDB can kiss the fattest part of my ass. BOM had an invaluable comprehensive set of data from the release schedule to each individual's filmography to how much a movie made in its 80th weekend. I bloody hate IMDB those greedy assholes.

[grim22]

 

If only Gone Girl was releasing this weekend, this poster would have been perfect.